The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-09-14
Roman JAMIE Rurn. aged fifty. fertiliz.

by taking eight ounces of laudanum.
WHILE big gun was being cast at the
viskers foundry in Sheffield, England. on
the 9th, the casting exploded, killing four
men on the spet and injuring many
others. The buildings of the establish
ment were more or less shattered.
THE residence of Cardinal Gibbons in
Baltimore, Md, was robbed on the AZ
two valuable rings, one Won was
present from Pors i4.SSS. They were stolen
from drawer in the library, the lock Of
-.ich the thief cut out. No clew to the
thief has been obtained.
FIVE men were killed by an explosion of
naphtha on the schooner War Eagle at
Boston, on the 7th.
ONE hundred and sixteen Of the victims
Of the theater fire at Exeter, England,
were buried on the It'll.
NEAR Ceredo, w. Va, on the night of
tho 9th, an old couple named Bush were
shot by three assassins for purposes Of
robbery.
The machine shops Of the Barren Fork
Coal Company at Somerset, KY, were
burned on the 7th. Loss will exceed $780,
900.
FIRE started in residence in New
burg, Ont, on the 9th, and spread to the
soon entirely destroyed. The loss will
reach $4,000; insurance not known. Mr..
j. Wells was probably fatally burned.
FIRE started on the morning Of the 7th
in Joseph Jackson's saw mill, a part of the
Grant Locomotive Works building at Pat
erson, N. j., and soon communicated to
every part of the building. or the Grant
Works nothing remains but the erecting
shop, the foundry and part of the new
machine shop. The loss is estimated at
S150, 900, and six hundred hands are thrown
out of employment.
AT three O'Clock on the morning of the
Sth Jacob Albiec, a well-to-do citizen, of
Omaha, Neb., shot his wife and then killed
himself. The wife was shot in the right
breast, the ball going through her body and
lodging under the skin below the right
shoulder. She was alive at last accounts.
JOHN GALE, aged forty, was struck on
the temple by base ball while crossing a
field in the suburbs of Brooklyn, on the Sth,
where some boys were playing and died
the same night Charles Miller, who
batted the ball, has been arrested.
THE Hotel Arlington, at Saegertown,
Pa, six miles north of Meadyiile, erected
last spring at a cost of $4,000, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the morning of
the Sth. The fire broke out in the kitchen.
The guests, twenty five in number, barely
escaped, saving nothing. The house con-
tanned sixty-five rooms.
DURING the tornado in the Schoharie val
ley, N. Y, on the 7th, several persons were
injured. Hop yards were devastated,
crops were ruined aud some stock killed.
Fifty barns were unroofed, and Alfred g.
Gifford's house at Shuthborne was de.
moIished.
A DISPATCH from London, Ont, says:
"IsraeI Lucas, the defaulting treasurer of
Auglaize County, o., who absconded Au-
gust 27 last with S3l 900, is supposed to be
in this city with his second wife, who fed
with him to Canada, and Detective John
T. Norris is here on their trail"
HENRY BECKER, aged seventy, was shot
and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa,
on the sth, by Nicholas Knebels. The lat
ter had been paying unwelcome attention
to Becker's daughter, and was ordered out
Of the house, but refused to go, and during
a scuifle Becker was shot. There is not
much hope of Becler's recovery.
%JoHN THOMAS Ross, known as the black
"burker," was hanged ON the 9th at Balti-
more, Md.
A CONFLICT occurred on the 9th between
large number of Irishmen and constabu
larry at Mtchellstown, Ireland, and several
persons were killed and many wounded.
ALL the Bald Knobbers at Jefferson
City, Mo-, except one, who jumped his
bond and fled, went into court on the 9th
and submitted to verdict of guilty.
COLONEL THOMAS o. SULLY, aged seven
ty, for many years chief Inspector of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, committed
4 ~, "a -.
JAS. HERMEs, a German, aged fifty
eight years, shot himself in the temple on
the 9th at his home in Broom street,
Newark, N. j. He had been in New York
for two days on spree. The physicians
say he can not live.
THE coroner who Investigated the death
from poisoning of Mrs. Mcintyre, of
Chilli, O., has entirely exonerated her
husband from blame, as he also came
near dying from drinking from the same
pot of coffee. The verdict was death
from poison administered by unknown
parties.
SPADE SUNSHINE was hanged at Table
asai. |. t., on the 9th in the Nation
al prison yard. He was convicted Of
the murder of Long John in the Seuuoyah
district last Christmas night. He sho-vaa
no sign of fear and was nervy to the last.
A FIRE starting in the cellar of Timothy
Brothers. dry goods store on the public
square OF Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th, de-
stroyed both buildings, each three stories
high. The stock of goods, valued Sl20, 900,
was half destroyed, and the remainder
badly damaged by fire and water. Insured
for $4,000.
WHILE Peter Rentz, a stonecutter, form
erlv resident of ST. Louis, was at work
in an excavation in Kansas City on the
9th, stone weighing several tons fell
from above on him. crushing him into a
shapeless mass and killing him instantly.
THOMAS KELLY, Michael Grove and an
other man named Walters were buried
alive on the evening of the 9th, in the
now aqueduct at North Workers, N. Y.
The earth above caved in on them. They
lie under I2o feet of earth, and their is no
possible chance Of their having escaped
instant death.
WHILE ascending fight Of stairs in the
hotel at Hurricane, a small town in Put
nam County, W. Va, on the 9th, Rev.
William fully fell. A pistol in his pocket
was discharged, and he was fatally shot.
The bullet entered the body near the heart
and he died in few minutes. He was
thirty years old.
IRE railroad shops, store-roOms and
machinery OF the Chicago, st. Paul e.
Milwaukee road at Yankton, OAK, were
burned at midnight Of the 9th, flames
catching from an engine that was being
cleaned. Two locomotives were damaged
60 the extent of 5000. Total loss, 500, 900:
insured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LITTLE credence is placed in the report.
ed collision of Russians and Chinese on
the frontier, near Kashgar.
AT a meeting OF Catholic Church dig
nitaries, at the residence Of Cardinal Glib
bons in Baltimore, Md, on the 18th, it was